BOOM!
A single rocket landed inside Baghdad's Green Zone near the U.S. embassy on Sunday night. An Iraqi counterterrorism officer tells The Daily Beast an Iran-backed militia fired it.
Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D., is Director of Research and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), where he has conducted fieldwork in Western Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He is also an adjunct professor teaching counter-terrorism courses at Nichols College.
MARTYR MADNESS
Whatever the actual extent of the terror group’s involvement in the carnage, it knows the images and ideology of martyrdom it demonstrates will serve its cause.
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HOLD YOUR BREATH
A prisoner now in Baghdad, the young scientist is still proud of what he did developing chemical weapons for ISIS. When will they be used? He doesn’t know, doesn’t seem to care.
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‘ISIS 2.0’
Jailed jihadis are being released, others are returning to Europe to face prison time, and still others have never been known to police and wait to be mobilized.
CRIMINAL COMPLICITY
The slaughter in the Druze region of Syria cost hundreds of lives last month. It happened after the Druze told the Russians they wouldn’t fight for Assad.
NIGHTMARE
The deadly attacks during Sunday services in Indonesia were the work of a whole family. They reportedly had returned from ISIS-land—a cautionary lesson as others seek to head home.
THE $25 MILLION MAN
Americans and Russians have converged on the Euphrates Valley where the ISIS “caliphate” is making a last stand. They “think” Baghdadi’s alive there. But he could be long gone.
POISONED MINDS
The final victory over the so-called Islamic State won’t be won until its ideas have been dismantled and discredited.
DEATH CULT BRIDES
This report from the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism raises frightening questions about women returning from the ‘caliphate’—if they can return at all.